The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $263,501 Project Grant under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) program to the Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to conduct collaborative research on developing a new class of energy-efficient electronic oscillators called easy-plane spin-orbit torque oscillators. This research aims to produce foundational knowledge on novel spin-current phenomena and antidamping torque effects that can enable the creation of...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Arizona for the period of June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SPINTRONICS ENABLED STOCHASTIC SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS WITH TEMPORAL INFORMATION ENCODING," aims to develop novel neuromorphic computing architectures that leverage the temporal information encoding capabilities of stochastic magnetic devices. The...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $525,000 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research investigating energy-efficient persistent learning-in-memory with quantum tunneling dynamic synapses from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will fund the development of novel learning hardware and software tools to significantly improve the energy efficiency of artificial...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant, effective from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2027, aims to quantify the maximal power that can be generated by exploiting thermal gradients and anisotropic thermal environments. The project will develop computational tools and advance the understanding of thermodynamic gyrating engines as a means to generate...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $1,600,000 to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The funding supports the development of a new type of combinatorial memory and logic devices based on magnetic spin waves, known as "magnonic combinatorial devices." This transformative research aims to dramatically increase data storage density...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $475,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to design solid-state nanopore systems whose local pore openings are subjected to controllable fluctuations. The research aims to reproduce the fluctuations of biological channels in model systems to understand transport properties on the nanoscale and harness new transport properties that result from these dynamic systems. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $260,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) to develop energy-efficient nanoelectronics based on CMOS-compatible magnetoelectric transistors. The project aims to combine novel materials like magneto-electrics and transition-metal dichalcogenides to realize high-speed, low-power transistors and circuits suitable for...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $345,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems. The grant supports research exploring van der Waals heterostructure magnetic devices for high-efficiency and high-density memory from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2024. This award is part of the NSF Directorate for Engineering's $345K investment in the Engineering program (CFDA #47.041). The program seeks to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA #47.041) awarded a $360,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to develop advanced "neurally-inspired" technology for seamlessly integrating communication and machine learning. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant are: (1) Designing rigorous communication schemes that leverage redundant and holographic neural representations to achieve...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $250,000 to the University of Texas at Dallas to design and experimentally demonstrate computing systems with extreme energy efficiency. Specifically, the project aims to leverage magnetic skyrmions, which are magnetic quasiparticles, to develop reversible and reservoir computing systems that can significantly reduce the environmental and economic costs of computer energy consumption....